1. Began dating Jon ("100 Years" by Five for Fighting)
2. Honeymoon (Patty Griffin "Heavenly Day")
3. Job offer of 2009 (Jason Mraz "I'm Yours")
4. Found out I was getting a promotion at work 2 years ago ("Rhythm of Love" by Plain White T's)
5. Positive pregnancy test of July 2012 ("We Are Young" by Fun)
And well, for the past 24 hours I've been putting my favorite song on repeat......"I and Love and You" by the Avvett Brothers. Suffice to say I have a piece of great news that I am happy to post to my blog.
(Good gosh---why haven't I just spit it out already?)
Roughly two weeks ago Jon went in for his follow-up post-op surgery semen analysis. As you may have recalled from previous posts we felt ambivalent about what to expect because on the one hand, the Urologist said he was "fairly confident" that we'd see improvement, while an OBGYN told us the surgery was controversial and very rarely showed improvement. The former dampened any dwindling hope I had leading my mind to dabble in the idea of IVF as a next possible step. So not only were the latest semen analysis results highly anticipated, the lovely clinic lab let the results sit in their lab for several weeks. In the past we were told it takes 5-7 days to get results. On the 7th day Jon phoned in for the results and they said they didn't have it. He tried again 2 days later and they extended the deadline to "10-15 business days". I told you that infertility can feel like one giant waiting game and this is exactly why. So needless to say, when Jon phoned in yesterday afternoon to see if the results were available nearly 2 weeks after doing the test I wasn't expecting to hear any updates.
Except that he did. I knew he had the results in hand when I saw him yesterday afternoon because he had emailed me to say he had the results, but would discuss with me in person after work. That stinker.
Yesterday afternoon Jon sat down next to me and said, "Ok Kate, tell me what normal sperm numbers are and I'll tell you what I got". He declared this with a little smirk on his face, but I wasn't convinced of anything just yet. And here we went line by line and I told him what I thought was a "normal"value and he told me his results which were all (to my complete disbelief) exceedingly higher than the "normal level". My initial reaction upon examining the chicken scratch otherwise known as Jon's hand-writing was, "are you sure the nurse had the right patient!?". When he said yes I then asked, "are you sure these numbers are good!?" in which he exclaimed, "Kate, the nurse said these results are great!". My husband passed the swim test with flying colors!
This morning we met with the Urologist who confirmed our preliminary beliefs that Jon's swimmers improved drastically (by 8-10 fold to be exact, yowza!). My favorite part of the doctor's visit was when he said, "if you're not pregnant within the next 3-6 months you can come back and see me, but your chances of getting pregnant are that of a normal fertile couple between 20-25%".
With the latest developments comes re-juvented hope that I only once felt nearly 2 years ago when we first started trying to get pregnant and I thought it would happen "right away". For the first six months I had fresh enthusiasm and naive hope that with each failed cycle that "next month would be our month". Between 6-9 months I began to get confused and frustrated. On the 10th month (a little over a year ago) was when I received a swift blow to our faith when we were informed that Jon's swim test was bad. The bad news reduced our now falsified belief that we had a 20-25% chance of getting pregnant down to just about 5% on any given cycle. By then, all hope of this happening anytime soon had entirely dissipated and was replaced with defeat and, "what do we do now?" confusion.
So here's to my husband.....the over-achiever!
Music to my ears :)
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